2. Noun. The act of removing one's hat as a token of respect. ¹
3. Noun. (geology) rock that overlies a mineral deposit ¹
4. Noun. the process of covering a borehole in order to seal an oil well ¹
5. Noun. the selling of a security etc close to an expiry date ¹
6. Noun. (mathematics) the conversion of a polyhedron into a stellated polyhedron by raising a pyramid on each face ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Capping
1. a wax covering in a honeycomb [n -S]
Medical Definition of Capping
1. 1. Movement of cross linked cell surface material to the posterior region of a moving cell or to the perinuclear region. 2. The intracellular accumulation of intermediate filament protein in the pericentriolar region following microtubule disruption by colchicine. 3. The blocking of further addition of subunits by binding of a cap protein to the free end of a linear polymer such as actin. See: cap binding protein. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capping
Literary usage of Capping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"Timber mats tor separating capping from caved ore arc rarely feasible in block-
They may be formed as described ,in Art 71, but can not be built up nor ..."
2. A Treatise on the Design and Construction of Mill Buildings and Other by Henry Grattan Tyrrell (1911)
"CORNER capping. Details of corner capping for buildings are shown in Fig. 473.
They are used either inside or outside of the building to cover the corner ..."
3. A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction, and by Frederick Winslow Taylor, René Feret, William Barnard Fuller, Frank Pape McKibben, Spencer Baird Newberry, Sanford Eleazer Thompson (1909)
"CONCRETE capping FOR PILES Although some authorities advocate stone capping for
... The objection sometimes raised to concrete capping is that the upward ..."
4. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society by Manchester Geological Society (1906)
"capping OF WIRE-ROPES. The PRESIDENT (Mr. John Gerrard) exhibited a solid form
of wire-rope capping, cut across so as to shew a sectional view of the wires ..."
5. Transactions by Metallurgical Society of AIME. (1917)
"5 and 6, the fines were screened out of the ore and capping, making both ore and
capping represent, on the scale of 1 in. = 5 ft., coarse chunks of 4 to 12 ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1917)
"5 and 6, the fines were screened out of the ore and capping, making both ore and
capping represent, on the scale of 1 in. = 5 ft., coarse chunks of 4 to 12 ..."
7. American Journal of Dental Science by American Society of Dental Surgeons (1881)
"A Long Practiced and Successful Method of capping Exposed Pulps, with Cases in
... Since cements have come into use in filling teeth the old way of capping ..."
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